Facts Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass…

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax,…

— Don Paterson

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot…

— Thomas M. Disch

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez